Lois Lowry has won two Newbery Medals, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal and the Mark Twain Award. Her most popular book to date, “The Giver” (the winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal), is the quintessential dystopian novel that has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and has been on middle school reading lists in Australia, Canada and the United States for decades.

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a perfect world of sameness, a world where there is no privacy, suffering, hunger, war, color, music or love. When he is assigned to his new job as the Receiver of Memory, singled out to receive specialized training from The Giver, his life changes -- forever. The memories he is given induce, for the first time in his life, genuine feelings of happiness and love, as well as pain and sorrow. Jonas must face the ultimate dilemma: to pursue a world of both true joy and suffering, or to remain in the sameness for the rest of his life.

As a class reading set, The Giver is recommended for grades six through nine (or for those reading at a junior high school or middle school level). This young adult novel is also recommended for community reading programs, such as library-sponsored reading clubs and other educational/literary programs.

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ISBN 9780544336261

Paperback

Author: Lois Lowry

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Editorial Reviews

"A powerful and provocative novel"--"The New York Times"
"Wrought with admirable skill -- the emptiness and menace underlying this Utopia emerge step by inexorable step: a richly provocative novel."--"Kirkus", starred review
"Lowry is once again in top form raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers."--"Publishers Weekly", starred review
"The simplicity and directness of Lowry's writing force readers to grapple with their own thoughts."-- "Booklist", starred review
"The theme of balancing the values of freedom and security is beautifully presented."-- "The Horn Book Magazine", starred review

Publisher

Harcourt

ISBN-13

9780544336261

ISBN-10

0544336267

Product Dimensions

0.7 H x 8.2 L x 5.4 W

Pages

225

Format

Paperback

Publication Date

Jun 30, 2014

Language

English

In the Press

USA Today

Award Winner

Newbery Medal Winner

Category

Juvenile Fiction

About the Author

Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader.s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association.s Children.s Book Award. Ms. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine. To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at www.loislowry.com

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